title: Scheduled Cron Task/Job - MacOs
id: 7c3b43d8-d794-47d2-800a-d277715aa460
status: test
description: Detects abuse of the cron utility to perform task scheduling for initial or recurring execution of malicious code. Detection will focus on crontab jobs uploaded from the tmp folder.
references:
- https://github.com/redcanaryco/atomic-red-team/blob/f339e7da7d05f6057fdfcdd3742bfcf365fee2a9/atomics/T1053.003/T1053.003.md
author: Alejandro Ortuno, oscd.community
date: 2020-10-06
modified: 2022-11-27
tags:
- attack.execution
- attack.persistence
- attack.privilege-escalation
- attack.t1053.003
logsource:
category: process_creation
product: macos
detection:
selection:
Image|endswith: '/crontab'
CommandLine|contains: '/tmp/'
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Legitimate administration activities
level: medium